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tice, that in some instances the removal 

 does not afifect the fruit, as the apple 

 will after such removal swell and ripen, 

 but in that case it does not produce any 

 pips or seeds, a circumstance that not 

 unfrequently occurs where one or other 

 of these necessary accompaniments to the 

 flower are by any cause destroyed, so 

 that it will be from hence seen that it is 

 not the fruit that is thus affected, but the 

 seeds which are enclosed in the pulp of 

 the fruit. Now it may from hence be 

 imagined that if one of these })aits be 

 removed from the flower of a crab tree, 

 and its necessary office as before detailed, 

 be performed by that from the flower 

 of a fine sweet apple, it may be conjec- 

 tured that the mixture thus formed will 

 produce seeds partaking of the qualities 

 of each, and that these seeds will be 

 rendered capable thereby of forming 

 trees, the fruit of which, will be between 

 the two extremes of sour and sweet, 

 a combination of two properties well 

 known to be present in all good fruits. 

 And it may not be foreign to our pur- 

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